A student suggesting a 1,300 year old game to teach computer proficiency is interesting. A school system that can incorporate that idea into their core teaching in two years is transformative.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...

“Computer science is the new literacy,” Dave Brown, director of CS Forward, a computer science advocacy organization, said in public comment at the House Education committee meeting.

Schools expanded the availability of foundational computer science classes, but stubborn gaps in access to those courses persist.